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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Android Video Player - Best and Free App to Play AVI, WMV, MKV, MP4, FLV and Many Codecs with Subtitles

In this post I am presenting to you an Android Video Player which can play lot many codec formats like avi, mp3, rmvb, rm, 3gp, wmv, mp4, mov, mkv, flv, 3gpp, mpg, mlv, mpeg, m2v, vob, tp, ts, asf, ra, ram, hlv, ogg, f4v and m4v. Once you install this video player on your Android phone then you don't have to look for android video converter. This is one stop Android media player which would play for you the codec formats you want.

MoboPlayer : This is one of the best Android Video Player apps you can find in Google Android market or Android store of your choice. It is simple to use and feature packed. Best part is, it is absolutely free. It comes with it's own codec format package and can play a very big list of formats for you. It's user interface is so friendly that after using it once you may not look for any other video player again.

When you launch this Android video player first time then it asks you to download and install codec formats as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Install Codec Formats

You have three different choices here, either you can download and install codec format package from Android market or you can do it from Mobo site or you can do it using offline instructions provided for installation. When you tap DownloadFromMarket it launches Android market app and takes you to the codec download page. Just tap to install the package from there. Once installation is completed then you need to launch again the MoboPlayer by tapping it's icon. If the codec formats are installed properly then it would not display the previous screen above and take you to instructions screen as shown below.

Android Video Player - Instructions

This screen informs about the various user friendly interfaces provided with this Android media player. Double tapping anywhere on the screen pause or resume the video playing. When you slide at left hand side of the screen in verticle direction as shown in screenshot above then brightness of the video is adjusted. When you slide at right hand side of the screen in verticle direction as shown in screenshot above then volume of the video is adjusted. When you slide at top side of the screen in horizontal direction as shown in screenshot above then you can decide the play time to jump into video. You would find these features with example screenshots given below in a while.

When you go ahead from instruction screen to main screen of this Android video player then you would find empty screen because no media directory is selected yet.

Android Video Player - Main Screen

There are two ways to go for selecting media directory here. Either you can tap the small folder icon at left hand bottom corner of the screen or you can tap the text message "There's no media directory, click here to set". This would open a Media Directory selection screen as shown below.

Android Video Player - Media Directory

When you tap check box at any of the directories then it is checked ON or OFF. It would also display the menu shown in above screenshot. Pressing your Android phone's menu button would also display the above menu. When you tap Confirm menu then Video Player starts scanning media files as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Scanning Media Files

Android video player app displays the progress of the scanning and how many media files are found. Once the scanning is completed then "Cancel" button changes to "Close" and you can tap it to return back to main screen of video player.

Android Video Player - Main Screen

Screenshot above displays the main screen with grid view of the videos. You can tap the icon at right hand top corner of the screen to change the view between grid and list. Tap the thumbnail of the video to start playing it and it would launch the player screen in landscape mode as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Controls

You can change the zoom ratio by tapping the icon at left hand bottom corner of the screen. You can drag the progress bar to the location of your choice to fast forward or backward the video playing. You can tap the Pause icon displayed at bottom center of the screen to pause the video playing. Same icon changes to Play icon on pausing the video and you can tap it to resume the video playing.

Android Video Player - Volume Control

As explained earlier there are user friendly gesture controls provided with this Android video player. Sliding your finger up or down vertically at right hand side of the screen displays the volume overlay on the screen and changes the volume. Play with it for some time to experience how convenient this feature is.

Android Video Player - Brightness Control

Like volume you can control the brightness of the video by sliding your finger vertically at left hand side of the screen. This would display the volume level as you slide. I have already explained earlier that you can tap twice anywhere on the video to pause or resume the playing.

Android Video Player - Jump to Location

Many times we want to jump to a specific location in the video and start playing video from that point. This Android video player makes it very convenient to precisely jump to specific location. Slide your finger horizontally at top side of the screen and it would display the "Jump to" button at right hand top of the screen. Keep sliding your finger toward left or right to change the displayed location as you need. Once the required location is displayed then tap the "Jump to" button at top right hand corner of screen to execute it. This would start playing the video from that point onward.

Android Video Player - Coverflow View

When you are at main screen of the video player app where you are looking at all the available videos in grid view then you can rotate the phone and you can see the videos as shown in screenshot above. This view is called Coverflow or Pictureflow. Here you can see the Album Arts or Thumbnails of the videos as shown above. You can swipe the pictures by your finger to see the available videos. Tap the picture in front to start playing that video. Play with this to understand how user friendly this interface is.

Android Video Player - Context Menu

You can long press the picture in front to display the menu as shown in above screenshot. One of the important menus here is "Add to play list". You can tap this menu to add the given video into playlist. By creating playlist you can group the videos by a particular theme and can play all the videos in playlist by just single tap.

Android Video Player - More Menu

On main screen of this Android video player app you can tap "..." (more) menu item at the right hand bottom of the screen to display the more menu as shown in above screenshot. Here you can change the Background of the app and can also goto the PlayList screen to start playing playlists. Settings menu launches the settings screen shown below.

Android Video Player - Settings

Here you would find lot of settings to fine tune the behavior of this Android video player app. One of the options is "Choose the media directory". This feature we saw earlier in this post where you can select the media directories to scan the media files. One of the sections of settings are related to Subtitles. Where you can choose to show Subtitles by automatically loading subtitle file. You can also choose text size, color and character set for subtitles.

This brings us to end of this post. If you have enjoyed this post then you may like to read few more posts about cool, best and wonderful Android apps at popular posts area which is at right side. Keep checking back for reading about more exciting and coolest Android apps.